COVID POLICY:
• Temperature check when entering clinic
• All workers should wear masks in accordance with CDC and Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) guidance and any state or local requirements.
• Wash hands with antibacterial soap and water for at least 20 seconds or use hand sanitizer
with at least 60% alcohol to clean hands after bathroom use and before handling food.
CDC currently recommends a quarantine period of 14 days. However, based on local circumstances and
resources, the following options to shorten quarantine are acceptable alternatives.
• Quarantine can end after Day 10 without testing and if no symptoms have been reported
during daily monitoring.
• When diagnostic testing resources are sufficient and available, then quarantine can end after
Day 7 if a diagnostic specimen tests negative and if no symptoms were reported during daily
monitoring. The specimen may be collected and tested within 48 hours before the time of
planned quarantine discontinuation (e.g., in anticipation of testing delays), but quarantine
cannot be discontinued earlier than after Day 7.
In both cases, additional criteria (e.g., continued symptom monitoring and masking through Day 14)
must be met.

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The risk mitigation plan for services may include some of the following elements: regular communication
with staff and clients about how to stay safe, telecommuting/telehealth, limits on air travel, attestations
about symptoms and exposure, encouraging social distancing, considerations for determining whether to
continue/augment/suspend client services, and cancelling services/sessions if clients or service providers
are symptomatic or if deemed necessary to comply with social distancing recommendations.

• If continuing services is deemed appropriate, this agency will then determine if services can be
delivered in a manner that does not unduly increase the risk (e.g., enhanced disinfecting
protocols, minimizing numbers and points of contact, using protective gear).

• If services should be suspended in their current form, the next step is to determine if services
can be augmented (e.g., provide telehealth services, develop maintenance and generalization
programming, create home-based program materials, move to parent consultation via telehealth)
to minimize disruptions (i.e., minimize loss of critical skills).

• If it is determined that services must be stopped, as opposed to augmented, providers should
engage in appropriate steps to ensure continuity of care and appropriate transition (e.g., update
reports and data, make relevant documents and materials available to caregivers, provide
caregivers with a list of other relevant providers).

This agency will systematically and carefully consider the risks of stopping, continuing as-is, or
augmenting services, and then take steps to carry out the decision in a way that minimizes risks to
clients, caregivers, and staff and maximizes therapeutic benefits to clients.